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Famous Quotes about religion“ Allow the Source of Being to maintain contact with you: ignore the impressions and opinions of your customary self. If this self were of value in your search, it would have found realization for you. But all it can do is to depend upon others. ” “ God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction. ” “ But of course in Oriental cultures, they don't think of God as an autocrat. God is the fundamental energy of the world which performs all this world without having to think about it. ” “ But to rationalize faith is not to admit the superiority of philosophy over religion. ” “ With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. ” “ I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened. ” “ The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. ” “ Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. ” “ God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through. ” “ The task of the priest is to save mankind. ” “ All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. ” “ A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology. ” “ Honesty and truth are a way of life, the only way. It means more than just what the words imply, because it also means being true to yourself. The purity of heart is visible when the love of God is reflected so clearly and strongly that it shines through, even in the most adverse conditions and circumstances. Such a man has reached a point where nothing can touch him because he has come so close to God that his whole life is based on the solid foundations of truth, love and devotion to God. How can anything touch such a man? ” “ The sweetest of all sounds is praise. ” “ Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. ” “ God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. ” “ All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization. ” “ But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. ” “ The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. ” “ A master in Zen is not simply a teacher. In all the religions there are only teachers. They teach you about subjects which you dont know, and they ask you to believe because there is no way to bring those experiences into objective reality. Neither has the teacher known them - he has believed them; he transfers his belief to somebody else. Zen is not a believers world. It is not for the faithful ones; it is for those daring souls who can drop all belief, unbelief, doubt, reason, mind, and simply enter into their pure existence without boundaries. But it brings a tremendous transformation. Hence, let me say that while others are involved in philosophies, Zen is involved in metamorphosis, in a transformation. It is authentic alchemy: it changes you from base metal into gold. But its language has to be understood, not with your reasoning and intellectual mind but with your loving heart. Or even just listening, not bothering whether it is true or not. And a moment comes suddenly that you see it, which has been eluding you your whole life. Suddenly, what Gautam Buddha called "eighty-four thousand doors" open. ” “ In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else. ” “ Brahman is the only Reality, ever pure, ever illumined, ever free, beyond the limits of time, space, and causation. Though apparently divided by names and forms through the inscrutable power of maya, that enchantress who makes the impossible possible, Brahman is really One and undivided. is the only Reality, ever pure, ever illumined, ever free, beyond the limits of time, space, and causation. Though apparently divided by names and forms through the inscrutable power of maya, that enchantress who makes the impossible possible, Brahman is really One and undivided. ” “ Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. ” “ There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. ” “ I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle. ” “ Beware of the person of one book. ” “ God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. ” “ God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. ” “ From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God. ” “ Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. ” “ All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. ” “ The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves! ” “ I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing. ” “ Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. ” “ Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. ” “ God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so. ” “ According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. ” “ Every great man has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography ” “ Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. ” “ God epiphanizes Himself to the soul according to the essence of that soul, which is at once physical and spiritual. Then the soul becomes aware that it sees God, but through Him, not through itself; it loves only Him, not through itself, but in such a way that it is He who loves Himself; it is not the soul which loves Him; it contemplates God in every being, but thanks to a gaze which is the divine gaze itself. It becomes aware that He loves no other than Himself; He is the Lover and the Beloved, He who seeks and He who is sought. ” “ God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. ” “ I am against all war ” “ I see all the different religious traditions as paths for the development of inner peace, which is the true foundation of world peace. These ancient traditions come to us as a gift from our common past. Will we continue to cherish it as a gift and hand it over the the future generations as a legacy of our shared desire for peace? ” “ Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. ” “ I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. ” “ May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him. ” “ Whether you believe in God or not is not important. Belief can be an obstacle to experience. The main thing is to keep an open mind, and be willing to start the conversation. The experience of so many people is that when they engage in a mental conversation, whether it's with a question or simply sharing what is in their heart, they get a reply. This is God as a personal experience, not just a voice in your head. Not your higher self. But the presence of the Source in your life. God is not a concept, or a belief. You cannot have a conversation with a concept. You cannot have a meaningful relationship with a belief. Worth a try? Dear God...... ” “ Heaven means to be one with God. ” “ Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. ” “ God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. ” |
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